Gleeson Paulino was born in 1988 in Eldorado city, a sixteen thousand inhabitants in the state of Mato Grosso Do Sul and grew up in Campo Grande.

He left for Vienna at the age of 17 via a music program for young

people from his religious community. On this trip, he had

the opportunity to go to London where his creativity blossomed

through photography. He returned to Brazil few years later to

become one of the most prolific emerging visual artist in the

country. In 2021, I-D magazine named Gleeson one of the leading

Brazilian photographer to follow.

In 2019, Gleeson exhibited for the first time at SP Foto with Lamb London Gallery, followed by a presentation Le Salon Des Beaux Art. In 2022, he held is first solo exhibition in Sao Paulo presenting his latest series Baptismo. The project won awards in Italy (Cortona On The Move), Slovenia (Kranj Photo Festival) and Holland (Lens Culture critics choice prize) as well as two gold medals at Le Salon Des Beaux Art in Paris. The exhibition Baptismo toured Brazilian Embassies around the world and a book was released in March 2023.